Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Roanoke, VA

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Roanoke

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $27,960 a year or less, while the top 10% make $42,810 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Roanoke earn between $28,960 and $36,580.

*Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year.

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Roanoke

On the average salary of $34,370, a single filer in Roanoke takes home about $28,634 a year, or $2,386 a month and $1,101 every two weeks. Taxes take 17% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules).

Is Roanoke a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Roanoke area are 6% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 93.6), so the average $34,370 buys what about $36,713 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Roanoke ($47,140). A typical home costs $301,139, or 8.8 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Virginia cities

Roanoke ranks 9th of 9 Virginia metro areas for this job; Charlottesville pays the most ($37,910).

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Highest-paying cities for cooks, restaurant

Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($54,460).

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Related jobs in Roanoke

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$36,780 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,740 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$30,590 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$30,020 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$59,700 a year
• Bartenders$51,590 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,210 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$42,030 a year

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